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Ken Paxton's tough-on-crime record under attack over plea deals

Original: "Paxton is campaigning as “tough on crime” yet his office cut deals for four accused child sex abusers and traffickers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, campaigning as tough on crime, is being criticised because his office reportedly cut plea deals for four men accused of child sex abuse and trafficking. Critics are also attacking a warm-up speaker at his campaign events for crude jokes, arguing his Christian conservative image is hypocritical. The claims are circulating as Paxton seeks higher office.

Why now: Paxton is actively campaigning, and opponents are using his office's plea deals to challenge his law-and-order image

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• "Paxton is campaigning as “tough on crime” yet his office cut deals for four accused child sex abusers and traffickers. The man he picked to warm up his audience jokes about children as “c*m trophies” and wishes a plague had killed more fat women. The party of # Christian… · ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 12

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